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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Wipe the floor? <EM>Au contraire</EM>, Mat=
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you've mentioned some examples of which I wasn't aware - thanks! I di=
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and establish reasonably accurate date-brackets for the main types when I d=
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the<EM> Bellframes </EM>book, but this doesn't much help with David's query=
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because steel frames - although common in the early years of the century - =
went=20
out of fashion until the revival he's trying to date. My impression i=
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that it's a 70s thing, fuelled part by DIY and part by the growth in the nu=
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of bellhanging firms.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=3Dmatthewhigby@a...=20
href=3D"mailto:matthewhigby@a...">matthewhigby@a...</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 11, 2002=
10:03=20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] mor=
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questions</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FON=
T><FONT=20
face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT><FONT fac=
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size=3D2></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica><FONT size=3D2>In =
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dated 11/12/2002 21:06:51 GMT Standard Time, <A=20
href=3D"mailto:djb122@y...">djb122@y...</A> writes:<BR><BR><B=
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TYPE=3D"CITE">2) Roughly, when did fabricated steel frames start to becom=
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quite popular?<BR>At some point in the past few decades, I think, and i=
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many cases because<BR>they can be built on a DIY=20
basis.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Fabricated steel frames were popular a lot lon=
ger=20
ago than the last few decades. <BR>The 1903 Mears frame at Lyminge has T=
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section steel at the bottom & top of the framsides & double flat=
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plates riveted together with spacers as braces. It looks very slender but=
is=20
as solid as a rock!<BR>Many bellframes were fabricated out of RSJ's &=
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RSChannel by Warners around 1910 for example: Bath SS Micheal & Paul=
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(1912), King's Sombourne (1911) & Marston Bigot (1912). Interestingly=
, I=20
noticed yesterday, that the steel used in the Marston frame came from=20
Scotland, London & the W Mids.<BR>Several other types of steel frames=
were=20
used by Warners, the Cantilever type (St Mary de Lode, Gloucester & N=
unney=20
spring to mind) & another with heavy steel plates such as Somerton.=20
<BR><BR>I'm sure CJP will wipe the floor with me & tell you a whole l=
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